Valve-bung and connection therefor.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

D. BEEBE.

VALVE BUNG AND CONNECTION THEREFOR.

APPLIOATION FILED OUT. 23, 1902.

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VALVE BUNG AND CONNECTION THEREFOR.

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llNiTEn STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

VALVE-BUNG AND CONNECTION THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,659, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed October 23, 1902. Serial No. 128,440. (No model.)

To {LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DILLON BEEBE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented and produced a new and original Improvement in Valve-Brings and Connections Therefor; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a valved bung having a valve which will be wholly detached from the bung and carried away therefrom upon making a connection to permit the outflow of liquid, to thus afford a free passage for the liquid when open and to insure an impervious closure when shut; to provide independent means for unlocking and locking the valve and for carrying the same, as by the key and slip-rod, respectively, of the connection, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which will be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved valved bung and connection therefor herein described and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved device with the slip-rod entered into the bung and coupled to the valve and the key about to enter. Fig. 2 is a similar view after the key has entered and unlocked the valve and the slip-rod has carried said valve inward away from the bung. Fig. 3 shows the key in the act of unlocking the valve, the bungbody being in section. Fig. 4 is a plan of the bung-body, and Fig. 5 is a section of the same on line Fig. 6 is a central longitudinal section of the bung with the key and slip-rod seated therein, the valve being carried by the slip-rod away from the bung and being shown entire. Fig. 7 is a cross-section on line Fig. 6. Fig. 8 1s a plan of the bung with its valve seated therein, and Fig. 9 is a central section of the same on line 2. Fig. 10 is a view of the key entered into the bung and coupled to the valve, the slip-rod being withdrawn upwardly out of the key and the bungbody and exterior portion of the key being in longitudinal section.

In said drawings, 2 indicates the bung-body, adapted to be inserted in the bung-hole of a package by means of exterior threads 3 intermediate of its ends and having at its outer end a flange 4: to engage the package and being adapted at its inner end to project into the package. Said bung-body has an interior opening or passage 5, which is uniformly cylindrical, except for the lugs 6 6 on opposite sides near the outer end adapted to receive a key, hereinafter described, and opposite segmental flanges 7 '7 near its inner end, inclined at their upper sides to receive cooperating lugs 8 8 on the valve 9.

Said valve comprises a disk 10, preferably having its edges conically beveled to tit a corresponding scat formed by flaring the edges of the inner end of the bung-body, as at 11. The disk 10 is aperturcd and provided outwardly with an integral tubular extension 12, extending the said opening or passage. Through the valve-disk extends the stem 13 of a carrier or attaching portion which lies at the inner side of the valve-disk, being normally held thereagainst by a spiral compression-spring 15, arranged in a recess of the inner walls of the disk extension 12 and pressing at its inner end against said disk and at the outer end against a nut 16, screwed on the end of the stem, said nut being adapted to enter the recessed portion of the tubular extension. A cap 17 is then placed over the tubular extension and made by screwing, soldering, or any other suitable means to imperviously cover the same against any leakage of liquid.

The said attaching portion 14 has at its opposite sides the lugs 8 8, before referred to and which are reversely inclined with respect to the flanges 7 7, so as to run up on the same with wedging effect when the valve is locked, and thus secure a tight closure. Said lugs 8 8 also project upward to the end of the attaching portion with straight parallel sides, and thus are adapted at their upper ends to receive a key 18. This key is tubular and is adapted to fit at its end into the bung-body passage-way, having'back from said end a peripheral flange 19, between which and the bung-body a gasket may be placed. The exterior walls of said key have opposite bayonet-joint recesses 21 21 therein, which are adapted to take the lugs 6 6 on the bung-body and effect an impervious connection of the key to the bung when said key isturned, as is common.

Alternating circumferentially with the said bayonet-joint slots 21, the key 18 has in its end slots or recesses 22 22 adapted to receive the lugs 8 8 of the valve at the same time as the lugs 6 6 of the bung-body enter the longitudinal portions of the bayonet-joint slots. Thus when the key is turned it simultaneously locks itself to the bung-body and unlocks the valve from said body, or vice versa, as will be understood.

Through the said tubular key 18 extends a slip-rod 23 for the flow of liquid, the outer end of the key having a stufling-box 24 for said rod and the inner end portion of the keypassage being enlarged beyond the outside diameter of the slip-rod to afford an annular space for ventingand having a vent-pipe 25 of any suitable type leading therefrom, as is common.

Said slip-rod, which is of course hollow, has its extremity closed, and adjacent to said closed end are opposite lateral openings for the flow of liquid. Said flow-openings are really enlargements of the longitudinal portions of bayonet-joint slots 26 26, cut through the walls of the slip-rod, and which slots are at those edges of the closed ends of their transverse portions next the end of the slip-rod recessed slightly, as at 27. The attaching portion 14 of the valve is hollowed out at its end within the bung to receive the end of the sliprod just described, the interior of said hollowed portion having opposite lugs 28 28 to enter the bayonet-joint slots 26 26 of the sliprod. The side walls of said hollowed end of the attaching portion are apertured, as at 29, opposite the lateral openings in the end of the slip-rod, so as to permit a flow of liquid.

The stem 13 of the attaching portion of the valve is centrally and longitudinally bored out to receive a bolt 30, headed at both ends and normally held projecting into the hollowed inner end of the attaching portion 1 1 by means of a spiral spring 31, coiled upon the bolt in the enlarged adjacent portion of the boltslideway. When the slip-rod is inserted into the hollowed end of the attaching portion of the valve, a little pressure forces the springbolt 30 inward enough to permit the lugs 28 to enter the slots 26, and then the outward pressure of said spring-bolt against the end of the slip-rod holds said lugs seated in the recesses 27 of the said slots to prevent inadvertent disconnection of the parts.

The spring 15 between the disk and attaching portion secures a tight yet yielding closure when the valve is locked in its place and also takes up for wear.

In operation, the bung, with its valve seated and looked, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, being located in a package which it is desired to tap, the key 18, with its slip-rod therein, isbrought up to the bung and said slip-rod slid forward into the bung and coupled to the valvegas has been described and is shown in Fig. 1, the direction of turning of the slip-rod in doing this being opposite to that required to release the valve from the bung-body. The key 18 is then inserted into the bung and turned to lock itself thereto and unlock the valve, as described and shown in Figs. 3 and 10, and finally the slip-rod is pushed inward into the liquid contained in the package, carrying the valve on its end, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6.

Various modifications and substitutions of equivalents may be made in the detail construction described without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by the positive descriptive terms employed except as the state of the art may require. I

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A bung having a valve adapted to be entirely separated therefrom or to be locked to the bung-body in impervious relation, a key adapted to engage said valve to lock and unlock the same, and a slip-rod adapted to connect with the valve to carry the same toward or away from the bung-body.

2. A bung providing a valve-seat. a valve separable from the bung-body and adapted to imperviously occupy said seat and be locked to the bung-body, a key adapted to enter into impervious relation with the bung and to en gage said valve to lock or unlock the same, and a slip-rod adapted to enter into connection with the valve to carry the same away from the bung-body and to return it again into engagement withthe key for locking.

3. A bung comprising a bung-body, a valve entirely separable from said body and adapted to enter into positively-locked relation thereto, a key adapted to engage the valve to lock and unlock the same, and a slip-rod adapted to be coupled to or disconnected from the valve when the same is in locked position.

4:. In a bung, a body portion and a valve separable from each other and adapted to enter into locked impervious relation, a key adapted to enter said bung-body. to lock or unlock the valve, and a slip-rod extending through said key and adapted to carry the valve away from the bung-body when unlocked.

5. In a bung, a body portion and a valve separable from each other by movement along their axial line and adapted to be locked together or unlocked by rotary movement, a key adapted to imperviously fit said bungbody and turn the valve, and a slip rod adapted to engage said valve to move the same away from the bung-body.

6. In a bung, a body portion and a valve separable from each other and adapted to positively lock together in impervious relation, a tubular key adapted to enter into positive inmervious connection with the bung-body and lock and unlock said parts, and a slip-rod extending through said key and adapted to carry said valve away from the body.

7. In a bung-body, a body portion, a valve entirely separable and detachable from said body by movement in one direction and adapted to enter into locked relation therewith by movement in another direction, and means for securing said movements of said valve.

8. In a "alved bung, the combination with a body portion adapted to be seated in a package, and providing a valve-seat at its lower end and segmental shoulders in from said seat, of an independent valve fitting said seat, an attaching portion at the inner side of said valve having exterior lugs adapted to engage the said segmental shoulders and beinginteriorly hollowed and having interior lugs and lateral flow-openings, and a slip-rod having at its end bayonet-joint slots and being adapted to enter said attaching portion and engage the interior lugs thereof.

9. The combination with a bung providing a valve-seat at its lower end and segmental shoulders in from said end, of a valve independent of said body and adapted to lie against said seat, an attaching portion at the inner side of said valve, independently rotatable with respect thereto and resiliently connected thereto longitudinally, and having exterior lugs adapted to engage the said segmental shoulders, a tubular key adapted to enter the bung-body and clutch said exterior lugs, and a slip-rod sliding longitudinally through said key and adapted to couple at its extremity to said attaching portion of the valve.

10. The combination with a bung-body providing a valve-seat at its lower end, of an apertured valve having an exterior tubular extension axially coincident with its opening, an independently-rotatable hollow attaching portion at the inner side of said valve and having a stem extending through said aperture and tubular extension, a spiral spring arranged upon said stem in the radially-enlarged outer portion of said tubular exten sion, a nut on the end of said stem, means upon the exterior of said attaching portion adapted to engage cooperating means on the bung-body, and clutch means upon the interior of said attaching portion adapted to engage a slip-rod.

11. The combination with a bung-body, of an independent valve comprising a disk and an attaching portion independently rotatable and resiliently connected longitudinally, said attaching portion being hollow at its inner end and having opposite lugs and lateral flowopenings, a spring-bolt seated in the bottom of the said hollow part of the hollowed portion, a slip-rod having in its sides adjacent to its end bayonet-joint slots adapted to receive the interior lugs of said attaching portion and being adapted to engage said spring-bolt when seated, and an independent key for turning said valve.

12. The combination with a bung-body, of an independent valve having an inwardly-projecting portion adapted exteriorly to engage the bung-body and interiorly to engage a sliprod, a key for locking said valve to the bungbody and unlocking it therefrom, and said sliprod adapted to couple to the valve and carry the same upon itself away from and back toward the bungbody.

13. In a bung, a body portion, a valve entirely separable and detachable from said body by movement in one direction and adapted to enter into locked relation therewith by movement in another direction, and independent means for producing the two said movements.

14. In a bung, a body portion, a valve ontirel y separable and detachable from said body by movement in one direction and adapted to enter into locked relation therewith by movement in another direction, a key for locking and unlocking said valve, and a slip-rod for securing its other movement.

15. In a bung, a body portion, a valve entirely separable and detachable from said body by movement in one direction and adapted to enter into locked relation therewith by movement in another direction, a tubular key adapted to enter the bung-body to move the valve into locked and unlocked position, and a slip-rod extending through said key and adapted to be coupled to the valve and effect its other movement.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this latth day of October, 1902.

I DILLON BEEBE. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY.

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